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Henry Rollins: The Essence of Punk Rock

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Sunday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Decoding Vladimir Putin Several nights ago, I went to the Echo to see L ... More >>

Why Do SoCal Drivers Love the DeLorean? Let Them Count the Ways

Hollywood loves a comeback, and few cars were ever more in need of one than the DeLorean DMC-12. The production line went dark all too soon, the manufacturer filed for bankruptcy, and its disgraced mastermind, John Z. DeLorean, was arrested for drug trafficking.Then came Back to the Future, the 1985 ... More >>

The Worst of Burning Man 2013

The 27th annual Burning Man came to a close Monday with thousands of camps, art carts and stages broken down and packed away in moving trucks. In just a few days the temporary city of Black Rock, inhabited by more than 60,000 people, disappeared like a mirage in the desert. And while we love Burni ... More >>

Top 20 Hardcore Albums in History: Complete List

By 1980, the writing was on the wall: Punk rock might have been making headlines, but it wasn't moving units. The industry responded with the skinny tie bands, retroactively labeled New Wave, a safer, more accessible take on the back-to-basics energy of punk. The street reacted by buzzing its collec ... More >>

Top 20 Hardcore Albums in History: 10-1

By 1980, the writing was on the wall: Punk rock might have been making headlines, but it wasn't moving units. The industry responded with the skinny tie bands, retroactively labeled New Wave, a safer, more accessible take on the back-to-basics energy of punk. The street reacted by buzzing its collec ... More >>

New Documentary Captures Burning Man in Time of Crisis

Burning Man is happening at this very moment out in the Black Rock desert of northern Nevada. You can catch our coverage starting next Tuesday, a week from today, and also noteworthy is the just-released documentary Spark, which chronicles Burning Man 2012 and the year leading up to it . It's told ... More >>

A Sundance Festival in L.A.

Marco Ramirez's The Royale and Theatre Movement Bazaar's Hot Cat Make Old Stories New

Another Death of an L.A. Gay Man Tied to Meningitis

See also: Brett Shaad Aftermath: John Duran Apologizes to Family as Meningitis Vaccinations Uptick in West Hollywood WeHo News is reporting that another gay man in the Los Angeles area recently died of bacterial meningitis, heightening concerns that the widely publicized death of West Hollywood res ... More >>

Premiere: The Radar Bros' New Video, "House of Mirrors"

Not unlike the tumbleweed in The Big Lebowski, an acoustic guitar goes on self-guided tour of Los Angeles in the new video for the Radar Bros. song "House of Mirrors." The ocean, the Hollywood walk of fame, the barber shop; there's a lot to see. It's a great song, too, if you like driving, swirling, ... More >>

Converting from Christian Rock to Indie Rock

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

No, You Should Not Move Your Rinky-Dink Band to L.A. To Make It

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Hair We Come a Caroling

Lindsay Lohan: 5 Easy Steps To Get Your Life Back On Track

Gosh, Lohan, you're so inept at life you can't even take your luck at not having to do serious time for two DUIs and a jewelry theft and just lay low and run with it. (As friend Lalo Alcaraz said via Facebook, "If Lindsay Lohan was brown she'd already be doing 4 years in Chino."). No. In one day yo ... More >>

Andres Ordonez: Parishioner Killed By Gang Affiliate Spraying Graffiti on Filipinotown Church

Updated at the bottom with an ID for the dead. The location has been corrected. Headline has changed. First posted at 12:14 p.m. Two parishioners were shot, one fatally, after they tried to stop a pair of gang affiliates from continuing to tag up their small Filipinotown church last night, police s ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! How I Spend My Nights Off

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] It is a night off. I am in Boise, Idaho, sitting in the Crux, a coffeehouse on Main Street. No ... More >>

Jason Shmelnik, Dancing With The Stars Veteran, Dies With Two Others in Valley Crash

One of three young people who died in a fiery crash over the weekend was identified in reports as Jason Shmelnik, a 21-year-old who had performed as a youth on Dancing With the Stars' "Champion Kids" competition in 2007. He was not driving when the BMW he was in careened out of control, reportedly ... More >>

Q & A With Shafer Vineyards' Elias Fernandez: Summer Wines, Cycling The Upside of High School Band Practice

Elias Fernandez has been the winemaker at Shafer Vineyards in Napa for 28 years -- a lifetime in winemaking terms. While some winemakers hop from winery to winery over their careers, Fernandez says he prefers "the community, the quality" of working for the same vineyard that snatched him fresh out o ... More >>

5 Gems From Outfest History

Roll Up! L.A.'s Magical, BYOB, Pants-Dropping, Pole-Dancing Mystery Trip Is Waiting to Take You Away

You're standing on the corner of Third and San Vicente in a silly hat on a Sunday morning, sipping a Bloody Mary from a blue Solo cup, ready for anything. You were told to bring a beach towel, a $2 bill, a vegetable and your favorite movie candy, among other things, but you have no idea why. This is ... More >>

Intronaut's Tour Diary: From Playing Clubs to Opening for Tool in Sports Arenas

See also: Intronaut's Tour Diary II: Buying Weed in the Middle of Nowhere Intronaut's thunderous blend of sludge-doom and post-rock (most recently on display in their 2010 album Valley Of Smoke) has earned critical praise as well as tours with metal luminaries such as Mastodon, Isis, and Animals As ... More >>

More with Survivor Coach Benjamin Wade His Peshawr Beef Recipe

Not having a decent meal for almost 100 days as a Survivor contestant, Benjamin "Coach" Wade can't help but fixate on food now. We certainly don't blame him, it's our favorite topic. While chatting all-things-edible with us, he strayed from talking Survivor and shared his list of top five L.A. res ... More >>

Los Angeles Fails to Rank as Drinking Hot Spot: What Gives?

We sometimes relish the salty sting of L.A.'s poor-performing ways when it comes to city rankings that range from traffic to penis size. We can take it. But we have to call b.s. on this particular list. The Daily Beast's latest "America's Drunkest Cities" roundup, just published, does not even p ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: A Time Change and Curtis Mayfield

​KCRW BROADCAST #131 for Saturday, September 10 Fanatics! I'm writing to you from Port Au Prince, Haiti. I have been here for about a week now and tomorrow will be flying back to Los Angeles, getting a few hours of sleep, and then coming into the studio at our new time of 8 pm to do the show ... More >>

Legendary Ghostwriter D.O.C. Is Back, But Can He Save Detox?

Burning Man 2011 Sold Out, Literally and Figuratively; Tickets Go for $5,000 on eBay

PHOTO BY JOSH "CURIOUSJOSH" REISS​We didn't even know this was possible: Burning Man, great Black Rock Desert gathering of all people freaky and junk funky, sold out of tickets today for the first time since tickets started selling in 1995. Burning Man spokeswoman Andie Grace says the festiv ... More >>

Exclusive Interview: Sublime with Rome Talks New Album Yours Truly, Tour and a Slice of Humble Pie

Jena ArdellChilling with Rome, Eric and Bud of Sublime with Rome.​ We caught up with Sublime with Rome before they embarked on their summer tour with 311 to talk about their new album Yours Truly, which drops July 12. Here's what the laid-back trio had to say about their new album, their first ... More >>

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Q & A With Adam Carolla: His Sledgehammer Wine, Jimmy Kimmel's Pizza Oven, "Mangria" Where to Eat Pie

​ It only took him 35 years, but Adam Carolla finally learned to stop worrying and love wine. Well, at least the part about loving wine is true. The Manny Pacquaio-bashing, Antonio Villaraigosa-hating comedian, budding podcast entrepreneur and notorious complainer recently declared Sledgehamm ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne Defies "Sudden Illness" to Play Gibson Amphitheatre Tomorrow

MTV.com​ Yesterday, Ozzy Osbourne had to cancel a show in Reno. "Based on advice from doctors, it is with great regret that Ozzy Osbourne is postponing his show ... at the Reno Event Center," CNN reported that Live Nation's Chris Martinez said in a statement. "The multi-platinum Rock & Roll H ... More >>

The Official Guide to the Best Cathouses in Nevada dishes about prostitutes' "sweet jellyboxes" and johns' "wank-wank sack bags"

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Official Guide to the Best Cathouses in Nevada Date: 2002 Publisher: Straight ... More >>

Erin Brockovich FAIL: Tap Water Still Causes Cancer, Especially In Riverside

Again? Really guys?​Remember that sassy lawyer chick from the '80s with white-collar cleavage and a good head on her shoulders, to boot? Neither do we. But we do remember the Julia Roberts version -- and, if we recall correctly, after a heartening montage of interviews with little cancer chil ... More >>

Stage Raw: John Ferraro (1946-2010)

The COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS feature will return next weekNEW THEATER REVIEWS and OPENINGS THIS WEEKSTAGE FEATURE on Helen Hunt and Tom Irwin in Much AdoJOHN FERRARO​If you've been lucky enough to see Two Headed Dog's grimy, Beckettian clown show (Clowntown City Limits) -- about a trio of un ... More >>

The Family Prostitute

As the recession continues, more and more women are turning to the world's oldest profession to support their loved ones

The Melvins Attack the West Coast on New Tour

The Melvins Attack the West Coast on New Tour

Movie Reviews: The Last Airbender, Love Ranch, The Nature of Existence

Baby Ain't Got Back (Yet)

Mike Kelley and Baby Ikki wander the desert of the real

Jaime Escalante's Legacy: Success Doesn't Come Overnight

Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante in 'Stand and Deliver.'​It's said that Jaime Escalante's biggest problem with the 1988 movie about his successes with East L.A. Latino students at Garfield High School was that Stand and Deliver made it seem like they achieved academic excellence overnight ... More >>

'Stand and Deliver' Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies

​Following recent fund-raising efforts to help continue his cancer treatment, retired teacher Jaime Escalante of Stand and Deliver fame died in Reno, Nev. at the age of 79. Garfield High School's Facebook made an announcement Tuesday, stating that the former math teacher there "will forever ... More >>

Earl Krugel, Irv Rubin: Silenced?

¡Ask a Mexican! Bottom Line on Anchor Babies

Plus, are Mexican men good in bed?

The Escape Artist: John Banville on Georges Simenon

Put Heading Here

Concerts Clubs Other Rock & Pop

The Fuhrman Factor

Thirteen years later former LAPD detective is still haunted by one that got away. Was justice in the Dawn Gamez murder case another casualty of the O.J. Simpson debacle?

Bearing the Scars of Oscars

For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

Under the Influence

And Moz-itive thinking

Raw Power

Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen

Letters

Good Samaritan: Clean It Forward